27 anos da estreia do Dreamcast no Japão naquele 27/11/1998. Aqui estão os reviews que escrevi para Sonic Adventure e Virtua Fighter 3 na ocasião, na Gamers 37, edição de janeiro de 1999. Critiquei SA por problemas técnicos e VF3 por falta de conteúdo – ambas questões resolvidas no lçto. ocidental.

Adivinha quem comprou o pacote com o cartucho fofinho com desenho de criança? Será que é o jogo que todos estavam pensando? Vamos de fio pra descobrir! 🧵 [1/6]

O chute do Yamazaki, bicho

In the original arcade version of Final Fight, there's a third button whose function is to escape grabs. It's not wired by default in arcade machines, but was left in the game code and can be accessed via emulation. Here, I tested it via MiSTerFPGA. It was probably used by the devs during QA.

Another curious one: after 47 minutes and 4 seconds, the save screen music in vanilla Sonic 3 changes because of a volume overflow glitch in one of the audio channels. It was fixed in Sonic 3 & Knuckles.

Another one: in Golden Axe arcade, if you stall out for too long, two powerful black skeletons spawn to kill you. In stage 1, if you climb to the top of the rock and advance a little bit and just wait there, black skeletons can’t go after you and will keep spawning until the game slows to a crawl.

Another one: in Golden Axe arcade, if you stall out for too long, two powerful black skeletons spawn to kill you. In stage 1, if you climb to the top of the rock and advance a little bit and just wait there, black skeletons can’t go after you and will keep spawning until the game slows to a crawl.

Please look at this. *Really* look at it. And realise that even if you do insist there are issues with the data, or try to "Ah, but ~of course~ NPC soldiers should be men!" it away, any result that even vaguely resembles this chart should still be considered shameful. This is 30+ years of stories.

Another curious one: after 47 minutes and 4 seconds, the save screen music in vanilla Sonic 3 changes because of a volume overflow glitch in one of the audio channels. It was fixed in Sonic 3 & Knuckles.

In the original arcade version of Final Fight, there's a third button whose function is to escape grabs. It's not wired by default in arcade machines, but was left in the game code and can be accessed via emulation. Here, I tested it via MiSTerFPGA. It was probably used by the devs during QA.

O chute do Yamazaki, bicho

And here's Rebecca Heinemann herself telling how she freaking LEARNED JAPANESE just to read SNES dev manuals from NCL. The whole hour-long stream on Out of this World is a delight. Thank you, Becky. You'll be missed. youtu.be/tiq0OL8rzso?...

It's fascinating how Rebecca Heinemann managed to make Out of this World run on the SNES. Interplay, publisher of the console versions and the company she co-founded, wouldn't pay for Super FX/static RAM/FastROM chips. "I made a game using polygons working on a 65816 with pure software rendering."

This #ScanlineSunday is in honor of Rebecca Heinemann: 🕹️ Out of this World, Delphine/Interplay, 1992 🎮 1CHIP SNES via 🟥🟩🟦 📺 Sony BVM-20F1U Éric Chahi’s masterpiece was a breakthrough with it’s cinematic ambitions, and programming genius Burger Becky made those polygons run decently on stock SNES.

This #ScanlineSunday is in honor of Rebecca Heinemann: 🕹️ Out of this World, Delphine/Interplay, 1992 🎮 1CHIP SNES via 🟥🟩🟦 📺 Sony BVM-20F1U Éric Chahi’s masterpiece was a breakthrough with it’s cinematic ambitions, and programming genius Burger Becky made those polygons run decently on stock SNES.

Ganhei um Atari > Comprava revistas de games > Trabalhei numa locadora de games > Fui convidado a escrever numa revista de games. E lá se vão 30 anos.

No aniversário de 31 anos do Saturnão, puxei aqui no Archive.org o post que fiz no meu velho blog em 2009 celebrando os 15 anos do console e mostrando minha coleção até então. Na época eu devia ter uns 100 jogos de Saturn no total. Hoje em dia estou na casa dos 600. web.archive.org/web/20161216...

To celebrate Saturn’s 31st anniversary since its debut in Japan, for today’s #RandomGameSaturday we have: 🕹️ Three Dirty Dwarves, Sega / Appaloosa, Saturn, 1996 Produced by the prolific Ed Annunziata (of Ecco the Dolphin fame), this game is quintessentially Sega Saturn: quirky sprite-based action.

To celebrate Saturn’s 31st anniversary since its debut in Japan, for today’s #RandomGameSaturday we have: 🕹️ Three Dirty Dwarves, Sega / Appaloosa, Saturn, 1996 Produced by the prolific Ed Annunziata (of Ecco the Dolphin fame), this game is quintessentially Sega Saturn: quirky sprite-based action.

Que dia! Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney oficialmente localizado em português brasileiro (y español latino) pela primeira vez! A nova atualização gratuita do Ace Attorney Trilogy adiciona o suporte e outras melhorias. Parabéns aos envolvidos! Joguem essa maravilha.

Pra quem ainda não conferiu os DUBLADORES dentro do jogo, eu compilei todas as vozes dos personagens e conferi seus respectivos dubladores nos créditos do jogo! Com direção de Rubens Scharlack, confira no vídeo as vozes e de quem são elas no vídeo!:

Que dia! Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney oficialmente localizado em português brasileiro (y español latino) pela primeira vez! A nova atualização gratuita do Ace Attorney Trilogy adiciona o suporte e outras melhorias. Parabéns aos envolvidos! Joguem essa maravilha.

First footage of Link and Zelda in The Legend of Zelda live-action movie released

Neste 17 de novembro de 2025, faz exatos 30 anos que comecei a trabalhar no mercado de games. Passei por diversas revistas e redações, aprendi muito, fiz diversos amigos, mudei do editorial para o corporativo, tendo representado PlayStation, Capcom e, atualmente, Level Infinite/Tencent Games. [1/7]

Neste 17 de novembro de 2025, faz exatos 30 anos que comecei a trabalhar no mercado de games. Passei por diversas revistas e redações, aprendi muito, fiz diversos amigos, mudei do editorial para o corporativo, tendo representado PlayStation, Capcom e, atualmente, Level Infinite/Tencent Games. [1/7]

Rebecca was one of the founders of Interplay, worked as a programmer on companies like EA, Microsoft and Ubisoft, helped building the PSP and PS4 operating systems and won the 1980 National Space Invaders Championship! RIP to one of the greatest :(

Anyone wondering why people are mourning the loss of Rebecca Heineman should watch this video from @stopskeletons.bsky.social. This is just a footnote in her extensive career, but it's what made me follow and donate to her cancer fund. We lost a legend today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxF1...

Falando em capas da revista Gamers, a gente gostava de esconder uns easter eggs de vez em quando. Nesta capa da edição 30, maio de 1998, eu escondi o Orochi (KOF'97) na tocha da Estátua da Liberdade e a Morrigan (Vampire Savior) e o Mega Man (MvC) na coroa (meros pixels no scan, mas estão lá).

For perspective: it's been 20 years since DQVIII came out in the US. If you go 20 years back from DQVIII US, Dragon Quest didn't even exist yet – in November of 1985, the first DQ was still 6 months away from hitting Japan. DQVIII is closer to DQI than we are from DQVIII.

Some additional CRT photos of Donkey Kong with our working-class hero Jumpman/Mario for Monday motivation.

It’s Shigeru Miyamoto’s birthday today, so it’s a special #ScanlineSunday: 🕹️ Donkey Kong, Nintendo, 1982 🎮 Arcade PCB via supergun in 🟥🟩🟦 📺 Sony PVM-14L5 This was Miyamoto’s directorial debut, when he was 28. It ended up saving Nintendo of America and launching DK and Jumpman/Mario into stardom.

For perspective: it's been 20 years since DQVIII came out in the US. If you go 20 years back from DQVIII US, Dragon Quest didn't even exist yet – in November of 1985, the first DQ was still 6 months away from hitting Japan. DQVIII is closer to DQI than we are from DQVIII.

It’s Shigeru Miyamoto’s birthday today, so it’s a special #ScanlineSunday: 🕹️ Donkey Kong, Nintendo, 1982 🎮 Arcade PCB via supergun in 🟥🟩🟦 📺 Sony PVM-14L5 This was Miyamoto’s directorial debut, when he was 28. It ended up saving Nintendo of America and launching DK and Jumpman/Mario into stardom.

Até pensamento, bicho

Um dos melhoers

Até pensamento, bicho

LP, LP, ➜, LK, HP. I went back redid my Homer Akuma. This time with synched mouth and tweaks.

Como eu amava nossas capas da SuperDicas PlayStation. Olha o sorrateiro do Sly roubando o triângulo do logo da revista nessa edição.

A festive #RandomGameSaturday today with: 🕹️ Dragon Quest VIII, Square Enix / Level-5, PS2, 2005 Today marks the 20th anniversary since this masterpiece was released in the US, bearing the “Dragon Quest” name for the first time in the West. It was also the first time the series had voices.

Um dos melhoers

Vendo essa matéria de KOF'97 para Saturn na Gamers 30, maio de 1998, me dei conta de que, de certa forma, ela é um documento histórico da cena de emulação e sprite rip. Os primeiros emuladores de Neo Geo apareceram justamente nessa época, e também os sprites ripados que usamos na matéria.

Falando em capas da revista Gamers, a gente gostava de esconder uns easter eggs de vez em quando. Nesta capa da edição 30, maio de 1998, eu escondi o Orochi (KOF'97) na tocha da Estátua da Liberdade e a Morrigan (Vampire Savior) e o Mega Man (MvC) na coroa (meros pixels no scan, mas estão lá).

Curioso esse lance de ter NPCs papeando com a Samus, né? Aqui, trecho do meu review de Metroid Fusion na revista Nintendo World 52, dezembro de 2002. "[O] computador tem o infeliz papel de indicar qual será seu próximo upgrade ou quando encontrará um chefe (estragando o fator surpresa)…" 🧵 [1/3]

Na Gamers número 30, maio de 1998, nós publicamos uma matéria com combos de 100% no KOF'97, e um desses "combos" era simplesmente o Galactica Phantom carregado do Ralf em counter, que é hit kill – pegou, matou. (Agora, esse combo de verdade do Xiaohai com Galactica Phantom no KOF 2000 é pura arte.)

Tá aqui. Foi na edição 68 com Halo 3 na capa

Curioso esse lance de ter NPCs papeando com a Samus, né? Aqui, trecho do meu review de Metroid Fusion na revista Nintendo World 52, dezembro de 2002. "[O] computador tem o infeliz papel de indicar qual será seu próximo upgrade ou quando encontrará um chefe (estragando o fator surpresa)…" 🧵 [1/3]

Sobre merdificação. Fiz uma compra no Mercado Livre no dia 5/11, escolhi o frete mais barato. Passados uns dias, perguntei ao vendedor se ele tivera a oportunidade de fazer o envio. Ele contou que a plataforma só iria liberar a etiqueta de envio no dia 14/11 e me mandou este print. [1/2]

Na Gamers número 30, maio de 1998, nós publicamos uma matéria com combos de 100% no KOF'97, e um desses "combos" era simplesmente o Galactica Phantom carregado do Ralf em counter, que é hit kill – pegou, matou. (Agora, esse combo de verdade do Xiaohai com Galactica Phantom no KOF 2000 é pura arte.)